服饰、自我与社会变革——论美国现实主义小说中的女性自我形塑被引量：7

Dress,Selfhood and Social Changes:Women's Self Identification in American Realistic Novels

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摘要与一切物质文化的创造物一样 ,服饰也拥有具体形象 ,并在一定程度上反映穿着者的审美追求和审美情趣。本文通过对几部美国现实主义小说的分析、解读 ,认为其中不少女性人物都在按照幸运、有意义的工作和自我满足的理想构筑自我的殿堂。这些在不同时期创作的小说似乎有一个共同的特征 ,即讲述了女性的服饰和外表如何在自我形塑过程中弥补了她们的性格。 Descriptions of clothing have permeated the writings of American realists such as Henry James, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser. Attention to dress and the social backdrop in their works can illuminate a complex weave of cultural meanings. By unraveling the ways women ″identify″ themselves, we are actually trying to expose the warp of social class and gender expectations that have been largely associated with social conventions. With this in mind, the present author attempts to explore the social constructions of the female self in American realistic novels.

作者杨金才

机构地区南京大学外国语学院

出处《外国文学研究》北大核心 2003年第6期69-75,共7页 Foreign Literature Studies

关键词服饰自我属性建构美国现实主义小说 dress selfhood identification American realistic novels

分类号 I712 [文学—其他各国文学]

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